By joining more than 20,000 members in the IOUG community, you receive virtual, in-person and digitally delivered opportunities to engage Oracle technologists like yourself. This peer-led learning and networking forum provides you timely and critical context-based education that saves you and your organization time and money. From white papers and webinars to discounts on IOUG Press books, there is plenty of material to train your entire team year-round through IOUG.

Performance is one of the hottest topics affecting Oracle technologists. In this one-day complimentary Master Class, you will explore methods to quickly and efficiently solve performance issues affecting your database. Through real world examples and discussions from Oracle experts Mike Ault and Kellyn Pot'Vin, you will return to work with a plan of attack for any future performance issues - saving your company time and money.

Connect with Oracle users and IOUG Members on a more personal level close to home. IOUG Regional User Groups are a vital route to information exchange. Don't miss any opportunities to access the latest in education via face-to-face networking in your area.

Mobilizing emerges as a "must-have" feature for modern web experience. Oracle WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 introduces multi-channel portal experience to support mobilized web for smart devices. This session reveals the essential secret sauce of the new mobilizing support - responsive web design, and teaches how to extend the responsive template to support your custom needs.

Looking for specialized education and networking? Join an IOUG SIG to get connected with others who share the same interests as you. With resources on cloud, Exadata, Oracle Enterprise Manager and more, be at the forefront of technology.

IOUG Press is a cooperative publishing arrangement between Apress and the Independent Oracle User Group designed to provide the very best in detailed, need-to-know information for the Oracle professional. IOUG members can save up to 60% off of Oracle eBooks through the new IOUG Press partnership.

Whether you are thinking about expanding your Engineered Systems environment, in the middle of planning a migration or just curious about what makes Engineered Systems so powerful, you'll be sure to find lots of insight, information and ideas during the 2014 Exadata SIG Summer Engineered Systems Symposia, June 26, 9am - 4pm Eastern.

If you enjoyed the content at COLLABORATE 14, you are in luck! Beyond the good memories and great connections made at conference, IOUG members* can continue to expand their education and informational opportunities from COLLABORATE by accessing the Engineered Systems session proceedings.

Oracle Enterprise Manager collects and monitors configuration information for the targets it manages and adds support for sophisticated lifecycle operations on top, according to an article by Dave Wolf in the IOUG's Oracle Enterprise Manager Tips and Best Practices Booklet 2013.

Join the IOUG for a live webcast to find out about how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c delivers new capabilities and support for managing database cloud services with schema as a service and pluggable as a service for extreme database consolidation.

In concert with the latest Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4, the Oracle Enterprise Manager team has released Version 2.0 of the Extensibility Exchange. A catalog for anything that extends Oracle Enterprise Manager beyond its out-of-the-box download, the Extensibility Exchange allows you to search or browse for plug-ins, connectors, deployment procedures, best practices, templates and other entities.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 adds features to support rapid enterprise-wide adoption of database, middleware and infrastructure services in the private cloud, driven by an enhanced API-enabled service catalog. Since Enterprise Manager 12c was released in October 2011, the focus has been in three key areas - cloud lifecycle management, integrated stack management capabilities, and scaling up the Enterprise Manager framework itself for use in high scale, highly secure environments, noted Dan Koloski, senior director of product management and business development in Oracle's Systems and Applications Group, in a recent interview. "This release, 12c Release 4, contains improvements in all three of those areas."

Team building is an important part of leadership. As leaders, we can inspire our team, set goals with them, and remove obstacles for the team to accomplish their goals. But are we building leaders, and are we planning for succession?

Looking to stay on top of your career and latest industry trends and techniques while staying close to home? The IOUG Master Class Series is back and better than ever to help you do just that. IOUG invites you to participate in this one day class which includes complimentary registration and lunch.